Auction 45
Lot 158:
Large document with signatures of administrators of the Chevra Kadisha and rabbis of the Eida, led by Rabbi Haim Yehuda Leib Auerbach and Rabbi Yosef Haim Zonenfeld, the Ga’avad of the Eida, to prevent delays in the burial of the dead and the establishment of a special committee on this subject.
In the document, the heads of the burial society undertake “to prevent from here on any delay in the burial of the deceased, even a poor person who does not have a way of paying for it”, and to establish a special committee on this subject. Among the signatories are the leaders of the Haredi community between the two world wars as noted above, the Ga’avad and the head of the Sha’ar Shamayim yeshiva. On the back of the page are details of the members of the committee, 5 from the prushim, one from Lemberg, one from Wohalin, 1 Vizhnitz-Kasov-Bukovina, 1 Chabad-Warsaw.
Duplicate paper, 22.5x29cm, light tears, filing holes, light creases, good condition.
Rabbi Yosef Haim Zonenfeld (1849-1933) was the Ga’avad of the Charedi community and a great sage of Israel.
Rabbi Haim Yehuda Leib Auerbach (1887-1954) was the father of the Gaon Posek Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, and the 7th generation from the Admor Rabbi Yakkov Yosef of Polna, a student of the Baal Shem Tov. He was certified for the rabbinate by Rabbi Haim Berlin at age 18, and in 1906 he founded the Shaar Shamayim kabbalistic yeshiva, even though he was less than 20 years old when it was established.
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